This file contains a set of FORTRAN benchmark programs developed for parallel
processing systems.It makes heavy use of the PARMACS macros .In case PARMACS
is not available in the platform under test the PARMACS macros need to be 
substituted by the equivalent native system call.In such a case the makefile
for the individual tests cannot be used.The results of the test are stored in
the file 'result' and are overwritten on subsequent runs!!
 'comms1' and 'comms2' are basic programs to test the network.comms1 tests the
time between nearest neighbours while 'comms2' tests the time between any two
nodes.So this test needs to be performed between nodes which are nearest and
farthest from each other.
 'pde1' is a program that has a very low computation-to-communication ratio.It 
is important that this test is also run for the above reason.lpm1,md1,and qcd1
are full blown applications and can be run in any order and one of them can be
skipped in case there is insufficient time.
 In order to get realistic figures these programs need to be run on an idle
machine.The 'ReadMe.ascii' has a more detailed description of this package.Note
that not all programs described in this file are available in this tar.Only a 
selected few have been chosen.Each sub-directory contains a readme file that
explains the program in detail and what parameters need to be tweaked to scale
the problem.The application programs also have a sequential version for 
measuring the speedup.
 Following are the PARMACS macros including internally used macros

BARRIER			CLEAN_UP		ENVHOST		
ENVNODE			ERROR			GRAPH
HOSTID			INITHOST		INITNODE
INV_REMAP_TORUS		LOCAL_TREE		LOOK_UP_GLOBAL_TREE
LOOK_UP_NPROCS		LOOK_UP_POS_IN_GRAPH	LOOK_UP_POS_IN_TORUS
LOOK_UP_PROCID		MATCH_ANY MATCH_ID	MATCH_ID_AND_TYPE
MATCH_TYPE MAX_ERROR	MESH			MYPROC
NEW_MESH		PROBE			RECV
RECVR			REMAP_TORUS		REMOTE_CREATE
RESET_ERROR		SEND			SENDR
SWITCH_DIMENSION	TORUS			WAIT_MESSAGE


